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About This LectureJapan is now a mature society facing problems that wererelatively unforeseen in the economically vibrant postwarperiod when today’s public policies were established. Where anaggressive appetite for growth once drove many social choices,today’s increasingly elderly population, strained energyresources and a scrap-and-build approach to constructionrequire other choices that already have deep roots in Japan’shistory, such as conservation and common concern. How didthis happen and what lies ahead?

About Our SpeakerDana Buntrock is the Chair of the University of California,Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies and a Professor in theuniversity’s Department of Architecture. Her work focuses oninterdisciplinary collaborations in Japanese architecture andconstruction practices, starting with her first book, "JapaneseArchitecture as a Collaborative Process: Opportunities in aFlexible Construction Culture.” She has conducted fieldwork inJapan, the US, Taiwan, and Korea, supported by fellowshipsfrom the US National Science Foundation, the Japan Society forthe Promotion of Science, CIES, and the SSRC. Among herprofessional activities, she has been a visiting scholar at theUniversity of Tokyo and at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and wasthe Frederick Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design atthe University of Louisville. The author of three books anddozens of articles in professional and academic journals,Buntrock is currently working on a book provisionally titled"Untapped Social and Economic Opportunities in JapaneseArchitecture."